Pierre francois clerisse barette and amedee alexandre barette



(No Model.)

P. F. C. 8a A. A. BARETTE.

GLOTH FULLER. I No. 395,202. N Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

N. PETERS. Phclo-Lilhogrnphan Washington. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT PIERRE FRANQOIS CLERISSE BARETTE AND AMFJDFE ALEXANDER BARETTE, OF ROMILLY-SUR-ANDELLE, FRANCE.

CLOTH FULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,202, dated December 25,1888.

Application filed May 22, 1888. Serial No. 274,749. (No model.) Patented in France May 81, 1886, No. 176,397; in Germany September 18, 1886, No. 39,213; in Belgium October 30, 1886, No. 75,055; in England November 4, 1886, No. 14,233, and in $pain January 15,1887,No.10,489.

T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PIERRE FRANQOIS CLERIssE .VBARETTE and AMEDEE ALEXANDRE BARETTE, both citizens of the Republic, of France, residing at R01nillysur-Andelle, in the Department de lEure, in said Republic, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oloth-Fullers with Alternate Motion, (for which we have received the following patents, IO to wit: of France, No. 170,397, dated May 31,

1886; of Germany, No. 39,213, dated September 18, 18813; of Belgium, No. 75,055, dated October 30, 1886 5 of England, No. 14,233, dated November 4, 1886, and of Spain, No. 10389, I 5 dated January 15, 1887,) of which the following is a specification.

The nature of the invention consists in the details of combination and construction, substantiall y as illustrated in the drawings, hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1. is a vertical sectional view illustrating our newly invented fulling-machine. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, taken in a 2 5 plane at right angles to the plane on which Fig. 1 is taken.

0 O designate the inclosing case or cover of the machine. In this are journaled in suitable bearings the shafts 1-3 and B. These 0 shafts both project without the case or cover 0 0. On either end of the shaft B, and without the case, are mounted two pulleys, one fast and one loose in each pair. Upon this same shaft B is also mounted the spur-whcel C,

3 5 which meshes into the spur-wheel C 011 the shaft B. Upon the shaft B, within the said cover, is mounted the cylinder A. Upon the shaft 13, also within the said cover and directly above the said cylinder A, is mounted another cylinder, A. On each side of the cylinder A, within said case, is arranged a stationary beater, designated, respectively, by S and S.

M and M also designate heaters, which alternately strike upon cloth laid upon S and S. The outer ends of these beaters S and S rest on rollers R and B. One end of the Shaft of each roller is formed with an endless screw, which works in a worm-wheel. The shaft upon which the \VOlll'l-WllGGl is mounted carries an index-hand moving over a dial to indicate the progress of the fulling. Ashaft,

V, is mounted upon the upper part of the machine. Upon this shaft Vis mounted a crank, \V, which is actuated by a bar connecting it with a similar crank or an eccentric on. the shaft B. This crank \V is also attached by a bar and other propermechanism to the beaters M M to give them motion. Upon the lever L' is a weight, P, which operates to steady the motion of the machine. The weight P on the lever L may be shifted to the lever L as may be required and as hereinafter de scribed. The case or cover 0 O is provided with doors on either side, which give access to the interior of the machine. On either side of the heaters, within the said case, are placed the blocks J and J to retain the article to be operated upon in proper position.

N N are two wide boards formed and adapted to fit into the cover below the cylinders and heaters, partly to hold up the cloth being operated on upon either side of the heaters, and partly to convey away from the cloth any water that may drip out of it while being operated upon. The bottom of the case, as illustrated, forms a vessel in which all the drip-water collects, and from which it maybe removed from time to time, as required.

Thecloth to be fulled having been properly prepared and put in through the door on one side far enough for the cylinders A and A to catch one end between them, the weight P is put on the lever on the side opposite to that through which the cloth is put in. The machine is started, and as one of the belts which connects the pulleys on the shaft B with the power is crossed and the other is direct, the fly-pulleys on which these belts run when the machine is first started will run in opposite 9o directions. The proper belt is now shifted to the proper tight pulley to cause the cylinders A and A to draw away the cloth from the side it was put in at. As the cloth moves, it is fulled by one of the heaters afterit has passed between the cylinders.

When the cloth has passed so far that it is nearly from between the cylinders, the motion of the machine is reversed by changing the belts, the weight P removed to the other tilting lever, and the fulling process continued in the reverse direction. This may be repeated as often as desired without removing the cloth until it is thoroughly fulled.

' What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I11 a fulling-machine, the combination, with the case 0 0', provided with doors, as aforesaid, of the shaft B, journaled in said cover and projecting without said cover on either side, pulleys mounted on said shaft without said cover, the spur-wheel C, also mounted. upon said shaft without said cover, the cylinder A, mounted upon said shaft within said cover, the stationary heaters S and S, one on either side of said cylinder A within said cover, the rollers R and. R, journaled in said cover and working as specified, the shaft B, journaled in said cover and projecting without said cover, the spur-wheel C, mounted on said shaft B without said cover and meshing into the spur-wheel C, the cylinder A, mounted upon said shaft 13 within said cover and moving the cloth to he fulled in connection with the cylinder A, the shaft V, mounted in the upper part of said cover and connected to the shaft B by a bar, whereby the said shaft V is oscillated, a crank, WV, upon said shaft V, which, by means of a connecting-bar, oscillates the heaters M and M, the lever L, connected to said shaft V, and the weight P in said lever, equalizing the motion thereof, the levers L and L, carrying the weight P and attached to said heaters M and M, said heaters M and M pivotally attached within said cover, and oscillated by a bar connecting them with the crank V, the side pieces, J and J, set on either side of said heaters, as specified, and the boards N and N set below the cylinder A and within said cover, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

PIERRE FRANQOIS CLERISSE BARETTE. AMEDEE ALEXANDRE BARE'lTE.

\Yitnesses:

JEAN SILVAIN, LoUIs GRAIN. 

